Oman News

MUSCAT: The Sultan Qaboos Academy for Police Sciences on Tuesday received a new batch of general education diploma (GED) holders to join the Royal Oman Police (ROP) after passing e-tests,...

Muscat: The Royal Opera House Muscat (ROHM) announced that tickets are now on sale for the upcoming 2022 season. Tickets for all performances across the season, which will be held...

Muscat: Maj Gen Fahad Mubarak al Khayareen, Commander of Joaan bin Jassim Joint Command and Staff College of the State of Qatar, visited the National Defence College (NDC) on Sunday.Upon...

Berlin: Signs were growing on Tuesday that lockdowns could very well be the order of the day as the world heads into 2022, with fear of the Omicron variant of...

Paris: In October 2020, as scientists around the world raced to develop a vaccine to fight Covid-19, the leader of the World Health Organization warned against looming "vaccine nationalism". In...

Muscat: The Omani Students’ Society in Bristol, UK, recently celebrated the Sultanate 51st National Day, which was attended by students of various nationalities. The students enjoyed the Omani food, which...

Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MOH) on Tuesday reported 35 new cases of Covid-19 and zero deaths in the last five days. The total number of cases registered in the...

Muscat: The fuel prices for December 2021 have been announced by the authorities in Oman. M91 - 229 Baizas per liter M95 - 239 Baizas per liter Diesel - 258...

Muscat: There are chances of thunderstorms accompanied by active downward winds and hail in the governorates of Musandam, North and South al Batinah, Muscat, parts of the Al Hajar Mountains...

Muscat: Starting January 1, 2022, all commercial establishments will have to mandatorily provide electronic payment (cashless) facilities to consumers, as part of the efforts to achieve digital transformation in the...

Muscat: The impact of the weather system has begun on Monday morning on Musandam Governorate and is forecast to extend to North and South Al Batinah governorates and the surrounding...

Muscat: Brigadier General Salem bin Yahya bin Humaid al Hinai has been appointed as head of the Civil Defense and Ambulance Authority (CDAA) for a period of two years. Issued...

Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has denied social media reports about the possibility of the presence of the Omicron in the Sultanate. The surveillance system that monitors the epidemiological...

Paris: Across a quarter-century of UN climate conferences tasked with saving humanity from itself, one was deemed a chaotic failure (Copenhagen/2009), another a stunning success (Paris/2015), and the rest landed...

London: OPEC+ oil producers meet Thursday under pressure from US President Joe Biden, who has opened up his country's taps hoping to bring down crude prices, and a new Covid-19...

Bridgetown: Barbados formally declared itself the world's newest republic at the stroke of midnight, as the Caribbean island nation removed Queen Elizabeth II as head of state in a solemn...

The Sri Lankan ambassador undertook a two-day official visit to the Governorate of Al Buraimi, northwestern region of the Sultanate of Oman from 21 - 22 November 2021. Muscat: A...

Muscat:  His Majesty Sultan Haitham Bin Tarik has received a cable of thanks from President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt in reply to His Majesty’s greetings cable to him on...

The seven countries named in the Supreme Committee’s decision today are: South Africa, Namibia, Bostwana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini and Mozambique. Muscat: “We can definitely say that the new mutant Omicron...

Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MOH) has issued a statement regarding what was circulated on social media platforms about the possible presence of the mutated Omicron variant of the coronavirus...